Just don't mention SQLite and threading in the same sentence. Or even concurrently running multiple queries in the same thread, like doing more queries while looping through a result set can cause hangs. It's great for what it does, but if it's anything more than a settings/profiles/log database, get a real one.
...since they're a) not Linux native and b) payware, but Telltale games has some of the best adventure games around. Right now I've been laughing myself silly of their Tales of Monkey Island remake. They run wonderful in WINE and is well worth the money.
Work is the boring stuff. You're fixing tedious bugs in tedious applications dealing with tedious real world problems like the cover page of the new TPS report. It's like a ski instructor that have to deal with all the horribly inexperienced people doing things all wrong or at least it's nothing like cruising along freely yourself. Obviously after a long day on the job I understand that this person would just want to go home, eat a pizza and do something completely different. But I'd be concerned about the coder that didn't have any pet projects, any interest in coding outside work like a ski instructor that never just goes skiing. No deadlines, no pressure, no dealing with poor specs, annoying customers or superiors. If you don't ever tinker with anything under those conditions I really don't see you giving it your best during work hours either. I don't mean that you need to have a long list of "public" off-hours coding experience that can be validated and put on your CV, just as a personality treat.
Not saying I disagree but is the point about anything to "tick the box"? A feature that's on the application checklist but isn't actually useful or usable won't do anyone any good, no matter what we're talking about. It's the same issue of imperfect information, imperfect distribution of responsibility and ultimately about cost incentives. Try telling your superior that we need to use this quarter's profit on getting a backup system upgrade for something that high or might not happen in the next years. Or just that the money is on the wrong budget, I've billed clients extra hours for working on ridiculously ancient hardware and over many months I'm sure I've billed $5000 for not buying a $500 machine.
I've been getting more and more respect for the challenges of leading a large company well. It's like herding a whole pyramid of cats. Perhaps this was a CEO making insane cost cut demands to the CIO. Maybe the CIO was pulling shit because the other C?Os don't understand IT. Maybe the head of storage and backup is incompetent. Maybe the guy who mainly wrote the spec discovered his wife was sleeping around and had his thoughts elsewhere. At really any point in the chain between "corporate goals" and actual implementation there could be a failure to give responsibility, failure to provide the money, incompetence, greed, lack of follow-up or really any other kind of FAIL that means the need that's clear on the grass root level never gets properly communicated up and down the chain of command.
Not sure where I wanted to go with this but I just recognize it all over the place.
the Holy Grail of RIAA, MPAA and BSA snooping campaigns: actual financial transactions of these donwloaders which immediately yield their identities and bonus preculde any possible defense of "sharing between friends" as there is actual money changing hands.
Uh? I pay money for my ISP, so there's actual money changing hands no matter what I do online. They'll need a stronger connection than that to get anywhere.
At the end of the day, the government goes to one of the really big 2 or 3 IT companies to develop a system (I'm talking about you, EDS, Capita, etc.), get quoted a crazy amount of money, accept the quote and then watch as the whole thing becomes a disaster and goes many times over budget. Then when the next IT project comes up they go back to exactly the same company. It is true that there are a limited number of huge IT companies to choose from, but many of the IT projects could be done just fine by smaller companies, and wouldn't cost the earth, with the advantage that supporting small businesses is a Good Thing for the economy. However, the government won't use small businesses to do these jobs because doing so is seen as high risk
This is not limited to the government, this happens in business as well. For example we landed a big contract with a private company even though they raised doubts of our size. In practice, it's the 2-3% of the organization in my team that knows anything about it, it might as well have been just us you were hiring. The chances we'd flop and go away is really no smaller or bigger than our company saying "that business area isn't losing us money, let's drop it". But big likes to deal with big, so big IT, big government and big business go hand in hand.
For some bizarre reason, the Company decided to make their in-house hardware engineer/support guy redundant BEFORE they had finished the change-over! Suffice to say, his consulting daily (or part daily) rate to come back (...) was *very* high (...). I heard of times where a 10-minute site visit was netting him a 1/2 day fee of something mad like 700UKP
In other words, he sold himself cheap. There was recently a big case in media now about the media consulting bill after a big scandal that they were called in to handle, the leading senior advicer - and he really is senior though - was 3500 NOK/hour or about 390 GBP/hour, that's his standard rate. Noone disputed the prices, they were just arguing over who would be paying the bill. If I got laid off and you wanted to hire me back in, I think me "WTF you got to be kidding me" rate would be even higher than that...
And I'm not really sure why they got into the chipset business in the first place. Intel and AMD had it helmed up
You must have a very warped memory of when nVidia entered the chipset business. The first chipsets were before AMD bought ATI and nForce mostly killed off a terrible line of VIA chips. They were really good at their best, they're just being squeezed out of the market.
Intel will be putting graphics on the CPU, according to their roadmap. AMD will be putting graphics on the CPU, according to their roadmap.
At that point the GPU is already a "sunk cost", noone will buy an integrated GPU that's only slightly better than another integrated GPU. It's also not only legal reasons, but also about pricing, timing, access to resources and so on. Intel can increase license costs, do accounting so more profits go on processors, delay launches of competing chipsets, deny access to resources trying to work out incompatibilies or instabilities and so on. Intel is doing extremely well and is ready to do that landgrab, one way or the other. I think nVidia is doing a better play as the victim of Intel's legal department rather than being gently pushed out the door as the GPU joins the CPU.
It was a screwup done in the 1940s, or even earlier. Not awarding a price the year he died is as close as they can ever come after Nobel's instructions. So it happened and they'll probably still talk about it in another 100 years but the past can not be changed. It's not Obama vs Gandhi, it's Obama vs other candidates of 2009 vs not awarding one at all. There's a lot of lesser candidates that have gotten price because there wasn't any better, perhaps that is the problem?
Only because they tried very hard to kill themselves by never getting a release out and finally had to lower their standards and realize it's better to release at some point than not at all. The mantra was "use testing" which was very stable but meant something could break or applications could change drastically any time you did an update. Some of the Ubuntu releases has been rather hairy but they never broke anything between releases, if it wasn't already broken in the release. Honestly, it's better with the devil you know than the devil you don't.
It might be the dowloads. Maybe it's a new measurement unit from the stock market, one Dow Jones load or dowload for short. Actually, guessing what the claimed damages will be 100000 times the value of the companies on the Dow Jones index doesn't sound too unlikely;)
True, but that list of IPs doesn't come from the torrent, it comes from the tracker. So either the ISP would have to listen to all your HTTP traffic trying to figure out when you're talking to a tracker, or it'd have to connect to the tracker itself. Both approaches can be trivially blocked with HTTPS and some very light authentication to deny them access. They could answer with MITM and it'd move to proper signed certificates outside the CA system. If the responsbility is put on the ISP's shoulders it'll come to this very quickly, nothing will change except now it's "their fault". Just like you see all the free file hosts are full of passworded files. Perhaps good, perhaps bad but like hell if those hosting know, they don't have the passwords.
Unless you're called as an eye witness, pretty much all other testifying will be expert witnesses in their field. Just because you could get any teenager to show you how it's done, doesn't meant you'd put that teenager on the stand to testify about torrent technology. That was a very weak attempt at a retort.
Extreme? No. I've been locked out of software I bought, probably because of trying to make it work under WINE with quite a few installs. Took them three days to answer mail (was on a weekend), I had said "fuck it" and downloaded DVD+crack long ago. I probably don't need to tell you what happened to my Stream games when the %#% cable company took a month and a half to fix my Internet. I do want to pay for the good stuff, what little there is of it, but that sort of thing makes me mad. Particularly because me buying something, despite having the full thing downloaded already, only "proves" that DRM works *rolls eyes*. No, it doesn't. DRM is and always will be pathetically useless. It might mean I actually like it and want more games/movies/music/series/whatever like that though. At least the music industry seems to have finally gotten the message even though they were dragged kicking and screaming into the DRM-free world.
Somehow, I don't think this episode is reason to say one way or another. They have beaten various enemies for 15 series now of SG1 and SG:A, it's getting old. Last in the movies they defeated a race of ancients called the Ori, where do you go from there? I don't know, but at least this episode gave me hope they'll find something inventive to do with the series. They're back to a small crew, far from home and without backup from earth. Let me put it this way, if they pull a SG:A and start doing gate and hyperspace travel back to the Milky Way this series is over. And maybe they please find more decisive enemies than the Cylons? Great series, but definitely a season too long.
The problem with 292 billion combinations or even just 17 million combinations is that your password will not be at the last point in the combination. IF the password ends up in the first quarter, then you only have 73 billion or 4.25 million before it's discovered. Now lets assume it's in the second half or third quarter of combination because you made a strong password. All I have to do is start trying mid way or in the last quarter of the possible sequences and I don't even need to go through a quarter of the possibilities to get it.
Nice attempt at confusion. Basically I've picked a random number between 1 and 100 and you're guessing, I'll only answer "yes" or "no". You'll on average need 50 attempts, doesn't matter if you start at 1 and go up, 100 and go down, odd before even, the primes then the complex, whatever. Sure you could get lucky and get it right on the first try, on the other hand you can get it wrong 99 times in a row. Your chance is still 1/100. If your chances are 1/292 billion instead, I don't think you're getting anywhere even if you get lucky. And you don't know if you've gotten lucky or unlucky. Want to try 291,999,999,999 comvinations before moving on?
Content addressable systems are a bad idea: consider hash collisions. In normal use, hash collisions are extremely unlikely. However, with billions upon billions of data blocks being checked by hash, the odds of a collision go up drastically, and you end up getting the wrong data.
No, that's pretty much the default functioning of hash functions, being used to check billions upon billions of data blocks each day...
Then there's the whole issue of RAM. The memory limit of 32-bit XP started to matter practically some time ago
It's certainly possible, but with the switch from DDR2 to DDR3 it seems size has gone down again. With DDR2 you could quite easily get 4x4GB for enough cash, but on DDR3 4GB modules are extremely rare. I was looking at an i5 system and you can't practically get more than 8GB for it. Oh well...
It's really no different from the real free market or the real world in that respect (a friend of mine who is a cop pointed out that the people who barely stay within the letter of the law are often as much of a social nuisance as genuine criminals - knowing some people I've seen in business, I am not surprised).
Of course, it's most scammers' dream to find a scam that's legal too. For example, finding the right pyramid scheme, I'm sorry that's multi-level marketing system, that has just enough legal content that you won't go to jail. Or the people that start weird religious sects which tends to make them rich and worshiped - not even BillG gets that. Or the unserious gray market sellers that'll leave you stranded with an imported device the manufacturer won't support. Or those that fool little old ladies into investing in their high risk venture company because it's a sure-fire way to secure their inheritance. Plus even when they skirt the law a little, there's proving that they were, boyond a reasonable doubt, on the wrong side of the law. Plus, they're annoyingly visible, you don't see the thief. But you do see the sleezebag that's gotten himself a cool hangout and hot wheels.
The pocket I'm reading to and from work? No way, ever. It gets beaten up, thrashed around, ends up squished way in the bottom of my backpack etc. and no e-book reader would take that kind of abuse. The big old textbooks I used to read in school, you know sitting down at a desk and reading yes possibly. Reference type books are already much better online, you can search for specific things, jump with hyperlinking and whatever.
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Just don't mention SQLite and threading in the same sentence. Or even concurrently running multiple queries in the same thread, like doing more queries while looping through a result set can cause hangs. It's great for what it does, but if it's anything more than a settings/profiles/log database, get a real one.
...since they're a) not Linux native and b) payware, but Telltale games has some of the best adventure games around. Right now I've been laughing myself silly of their Tales of Monkey Island remake. They run wonderful in WINE and is well worth the money.
Work is the boring stuff. You're fixing tedious bugs in tedious applications dealing with tedious real world problems like the cover page of the new TPS report. It's like a ski instructor that have to deal with all the horribly inexperienced people doing things all wrong or at least it's nothing like cruising along freely yourself. Obviously after a long day on the job I understand that this person would just want to go home, eat a pizza and do something completely different. But I'd be concerned about the coder that didn't have any pet projects, any interest in coding outside work like a ski instructor that never just goes skiing. No deadlines, no pressure, no dealing with poor specs, annoying customers or superiors. If you don't ever tinker with anything under those conditions I really don't see you giving it your best during work hours either. I don't mean that you need to have a long list of "public" off-hours coding experience that can be validated and put on your CV, just as a personality treat.
Not saying I disagree but is the point about anything to "tick the box"? A feature that's on the application checklist but isn't actually useful or usable won't do anyone any good, no matter what we're talking about. It's the same issue of imperfect information, imperfect distribution of responsibility and ultimately about cost incentives. Try telling your superior that we need to use this quarter's profit on getting a backup system upgrade for something that high or might not happen in the next years. Or just that the money is on the wrong budget, I've billed clients extra hours for working on ridiculously ancient hardware and over many months I'm sure I've billed $5000 for not buying a $500 machine.
I've been getting more and more respect for the challenges of leading a large company well. It's like herding a whole pyramid of cats. Perhaps this was a CEO making insane cost cut demands to the CIO. Maybe the CIO was pulling shit because the other C?Os don't understand IT. Maybe the head of storage and backup is incompetent. Maybe the guy who mainly wrote the spec discovered his wife was sleeping around and had his thoughts elsewhere. At really any point in the chain between "corporate goals" and actual implementation there could be a failure to give responsibility, failure to provide the money, incompetence, greed, lack of follow-up or really any other kind of FAIL that means the need that's clear on the grass root level never gets properly communicated up and down the chain of command.
Not sure where I wanted to go with this but I just recognize it all over the place.
Sometimes the moderators have a sense of humor too, they're modding it so others will be fooled. Plus you get free karma, so no reason to complain.
the Holy Grail of RIAA, MPAA and BSA snooping campaigns: actual financial transactions of these donwloaders which immediately yield their identities and bonus preculde any possible defense of "sharing between friends" as there is actual money changing hands.
Uh? I pay money for my ISP, so there's actual money changing hands no matter what I do online. They'll need a stronger connection than that to get anywhere.
At the end of the day, the government goes to one of the really big 2 or 3 IT companies to develop a system (I'm talking about you, EDS, Capita, etc.), get quoted a crazy amount of money, accept the quote and then watch as the whole thing becomes a disaster and goes many times over budget. Then when the next IT project comes up they go back to exactly the same company. It is true that there are a limited number of huge IT companies to choose from, but many of the IT projects could be done just fine by smaller companies, and wouldn't cost the earth, with the advantage that supporting small businesses is a Good Thing for the economy. However, the government won't use small businesses to do these jobs because doing so is seen as high risk
This is not limited to the government, this happens in business as well. For example we landed a big contract with a private company even though they raised doubts of our size. In practice, it's the 2-3% of the organization in my team that knows anything about it, it might as well have been just us you were hiring. The chances we'd flop and go away is really no smaller or bigger than our company saying "that business area isn't losing us money, let's drop it". But big likes to deal with big, so big IT, big government and big business go hand in hand.
For some bizarre reason, the Company decided to make their in-house hardware engineer/support guy redundant BEFORE they had finished the change-over! Suffice to say, his consulting daily (or part daily) rate to come back (...) was *very* high (...). I heard of times where a 10-minute site visit was netting him a 1/2 day fee of something mad like 700UKP
In other words, he sold himself cheap. There was recently a big case in media now about the media consulting bill after a big scandal that they were called in to handle, the leading senior advicer - and he really is senior though - was 3500 NOK/hour or about 390 GBP/hour, that's his standard rate. Noone disputed the prices, they were just arguing over who would be paying the bill. If I got laid off and you wanted to hire me back in, I think me "WTF you got to be kidding me" rate would be even higher than that...
And I'm not really sure why they got into the chipset business in the first place. Intel and AMD had it helmed up
You must have a very warped memory of when nVidia entered the chipset business. The first chipsets were before AMD bought ATI and nForce mostly killed off a terrible line of VIA chips. They were really good at their best, they're just being squeezed out of the market.
Intel will be putting graphics on the CPU, according to their roadmap.
AMD will be putting graphics on the CPU, according to their roadmap.
At that point the GPU is already a "sunk cost", noone will buy an integrated GPU that's only slightly better than another integrated GPU. It's also not only legal reasons, but also about pricing, timing, access to resources and so on. Intel can increase license costs, do accounting so more profits go on processors, delay launches of competing chipsets, deny access to resources trying to work out incompatibilies or instabilities and so on. Intel is doing extremely well and is ready to do that landgrab, one way or the other. I think nVidia is doing a better play as the victim of Intel's legal department rather than being gently pushed out the door as the GPU joins the CPU.
It was a screwup done in the 1940s, or even earlier. Not awarding a price the year he died is as close as they can ever come after Nobel's instructions. So it happened and they'll probably still talk about it in another 100 years but the past can not be changed. It's not Obama vs Gandhi, it's Obama vs other candidates of 2009 vs not awarding one at all. There's a lot of lesser candidates that have gotten price because there wasn't any better, perhaps that is the problem?
With that uid, it's because your pr0n is ASCII art.
Only because they tried very hard to kill themselves by never getting a release out and finally had to lower their standards and realize it's better to release at some point than not at all. The mantra was "use testing" which was very stable but meant something could break or applications could change drastically any time you did an update. Some of the Ubuntu releases has been rather hairy but they never broke anything between releases, if it wasn't already broken in the release. Honestly, it's better with the devil you know than the devil you don't.
It might be the dowloads. Maybe it's a new measurement unit from the stock market, one Dow Jones load or dowload for short. Actually, guessing what the claimed damages will be 100000 times the value of the companies on the Dow Jones index doesn't sound too unlikely ;)
True, but that list of IPs doesn't come from the torrent, it comes from the tracker. So either the ISP would have to listen to all your HTTP traffic trying to figure out when you're talking to a tracker, or it'd have to connect to the tracker itself. Both approaches can be trivially blocked with HTTPS and some very light authentication to deny them access. They could answer with MITM and it'd move to proper signed certificates outside the CA system. If the responsbility is put on the ISP's shoulders it'll come to this very quickly, nothing will change except now it's "their fault". Just like you see all the free file hosts are full of passworded files. Perhaps good, perhaps bad but like hell if those hosting know, they don't have the passwords.
Unless you're called as an eye witness, pretty much all other testifying will be expert witnesses in their field. Just because you could get any teenager to show you how it's done, doesn't meant you'd put that teenager on the stand to testify about torrent technology. That was a very weak attempt at a retort.
Extreme? No. I've been locked out of software I bought, probably because of trying to make it work under WINE with quite a few installs. Took them three days to answer mail (was on a weekend), I had said "fuck it" and downloaded DVD+crack long ago. I probably don't need to tell you what happened to my Stream games when the %#% cable company took a month and a half to fix my Internet. I do want to pay for the good stuff, what little there is of it, but that sort of thing makes me mad. Particularly because me buying something, despite having the full thing downloaded already, only "proves" that DRM works *rolls eyes*. No, it doesn't. DRM is and always will be pathetically useless. It might mean I actually like it and want more games/movies/music/series/whatever like that though. At least the music industry seems to have finally gotten the message even though they were dragged kicking and screaming into the DRM-free world.
But unlike the Year of the Linux Desktop, that one comes true every year.
Somehow, I don't think this episode is reason to say one way or another. They have beaten various enemies for 15 series now of SG1 and SG:A, it's getting old. Last in the movies they defeated a race of ancients called the Ori, where do you go from there? I don't know, but at least this episode gave me hope they'll find something inventive to do with the series. They're back to a small crew, far from home and without backup from earth. Let me put it this way, if they pull a SG:A and start doing gate and hyperspace travel back to the Milky Way this series is over. And maybe they please find more decisive enemies than the Cylons? Great series, but definitely a season too long.
The problem with 292 billion combinations or even just 17 million combinations is that your password will not be at the last point in the combination. IF the password ends up in the first quarter, then you only have 73 billion or 4.25 million before it's discovered. Now lets assume it's in the second half or third quarter of combination because you made a strong password. All I have to do is start trying mid way or in the last quarter of the possible sequences and I don't even need to go through a quarter of the possibilities to get it.
Nice attempt at confusion. Basically I've picked a random number between 1 and 100 and you're guessing, I'll only answer "yes" or "no". You'll on average need 50 attempts, doesn't matter if you start at 1 and go up, 100 and go down, odd before even, the primes then the complex, whatever. Sure you could get lucky and get it right on the first try, on the other hand you can get it wrong 99 times in a row. Your chance is still 1/100. If your chances are 1/292 billion instead, I don't think you're getting anywhere even if you get lucky. And you don't know if you've gotten lucky or unlucky. Want to try 291,999,999,999 comvinations before moving on?
Content addressable systems are a bad idea: consider hash collisions. In normal use, hash collisions are extremely unlikely. However, with billions upon billions of data blocks being checked by hash, the odds of a collision go up drastically, and you end up getting the wrong data.
No, that's pretty much the default functioning of hash functions, being used to check billions upon billions of data blocks each day...
Then there's the whole issue of RAM. The memory limit of 32-bit XP started to matter practically some time ago
It's certainly possible, but with the switch from DDR2 to DDR3 it seems size has gone down again. With DDR2 you could quite easily get 4x4GB for enough cash, but on DDR3 4GB modules are extremely rare. I was looking at an i5 system and you can't practically get more than 8GB for it. Oh well...
It's really no different from the real free market or the real world in that respect (a friend of mine who is a cop pointed out that the people who barely stay within the letter of the law are often as much of a social nuisance as genuine criminals - knowing some people I've seen in business, I am not surprised).
Of course, it's most scammers' dream to find a scam that's legal too. For example, finding the right pyramid scheme, I'm sorry that's multi-level marketing system, that has just enough legal content that you won't go to jail. Or the people that start weird religious sects which tends to make them rich and worshiped - not even BillG gets that. Or the unserious gray market sellers that'll leave you stranded with an imported device the manufacturer won't support. Or those that fool little old ladies into investing in their high risk venture company because it's a sure-fire way to secure their inheritance. Plus even when they skirt the law a little, there's proving that they were, boyond a reasonable doubt, on the wrong side of the law. Plus, they're annoyingly visible, you don't see the thief. But you do see the sleezebag that's gotten himself a cool hangout and hot wheels.
The pocket I'm reading to and from work? No way, ever. It gets beaten up, thrashed around, ends up squished way in the bottom of my backpack etc. and no e-book reader would take that kind of abuse. The big old textbooks I used to read in school, you know sitting down at a desk and reading yes possibly. Reference type books are already much better online, you can search for specific things, jump with hyperlinking and whatever.